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TIL there is a childhood onset Alzheimer's Syndrome called San Filippo Syndrome

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ZLBR TIL 3M company name stands for “Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company” = 3M
VDgm TIL That the Wall album is technically a loop that goes on forever, because the first and last words of the first and last songs come together to make the sentence “Isn’t this…where we came in?,” thus restarting the entire album.
E1L4x TIL about Tulpamancy, a Tibetan Buddhist practice where an imaginary companion, or "Tulpa", is created through intense meditation. The practice is often compared with Dissociative Identity Disorder, since the imaginary companion created is viewed to be independent and separate from the individual.
mxVky [TIL] that there was an actual Dropkick Murphy, an osteopath, pro wrestler and sanitarium operator. It was from his alcohol detoxification program on his farm near Boston that the band Dropkick Murphys derived their name.
XEm7k TIL At Harvard, Native Americans make up almost 2 percent of the student body. Only 67 percent of Native Americans graduate from high school but there are also "more Native American students applying to 12, 15 colleges, including top institutions, and that was never done before”